Robeson County NcArchives History - Letters .....Jas. McQueen To John P. Stewart 1857
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Little River E. Fla. 
July 16th, 1857

My dear Sir,
It gve me much pleasure to hear from you. I hope our correspondence may be the 
ultimate cause of our meeting. You speak of having a cough, and here I would 
urge that you visit Florida. We are all entitled to coughs, and it is 
certainly herditary. Nothing but great care and providence will keep us alive. 
I have used every precaution for the last six years. I do not beleive that I 
could live two winters in North Carolina. I regard this climate and mild 
exercise as the only cure for weak lungs. Nothing else will reach the lungs 
effectually. Inhalation does not suceed, from the simple fact that the 
Nitrogen and Oxygen in the lungs will not permit anything to enter in it pure 
state. Taking medicine into the stomach to cure the lungs is pure nonsense.
I insist on your visiting Florida. I believe your health would be better than 
it has ever been. Suppose you come this Fall and spend some time with me? You 
have been in Mississippi so long that I expect it would be hard to induce you 
to leave there, but if you would find that this climate suits your health 
better, it would be unwise not to leave. I think you would be pleased here. 
Like in all new countries there are many privations to under-go, but still 
there is a charm about ffrontier life, a retirement, a privacy, that I now 
would be loath to give up for the hustle of an older country. The change is 
very decided for me. I have been living in a village and town all my life, and 
now I do not see a person, not of my family, once a week. I have a good 
library, and my wife performs very well on the piano - so with literature and 
music, and the attention my farm requires, I am contented and as happy as can 
be. I have been a hard student all my life, and the danger now is that I will 
not exercise enough.
I hear very seldom from North Carolina. When we leave there it seems that they 
soon forget us. I left friends there that I hope may do well, but the ties are 
very weak that bind me to anything there now. It is very doubtful when I will 
visit the State probably never. All that was dearest to me there lies in the 
graveyards at Stewartsville. I would like to go back sometimes, were it only 
to walk the soil my fthers walked. The Stewarts are nearly gone. It is sad to 
think that you are the only last male representative of the family. They all 
after numbering but a few years have gone before. I hope, my dear sir, that 
you may live three score and ten. If you never marry the name will be buried 
with yhou. I would like much to see you. I hope you will come to Florida soon. 
You must write me very soon and write at length. You are many years my senior, 
but I hope as a relative this correspondence will give you pleasure.
It is with best wishes for you happiness,
Jas. A. McQueen

This was written to John Patrick Stewart (born 22 June 1805 in Robeson Co, 
died 19 May 1858 in Franklin Co., MS), son of Allan Stewart. John Patrick was 
the circuit clerk of Franklin County, MS. He had been married and had a 
daughter Arbella born ca 1835. His wife had died. He had no other children. 
McQueen was, I think, a cousin. Allan's brother James had a daughter Anne 
Patrick Stewart who married Daniel McInnis; a daughter Margaret Stewart that 
married Archibald McQueen; a son John Patrick Stewart that came to MS with 
Allan and his family; and a daughter Penelope.


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